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Revision as of 20:15, 20 March 2016
THIS IS A DRAFT. Carrie and Shawn are revising things.
N.B. Both the digraph system and the accented-character system are acceptable native orthographies, but it's bad form to mix systems within one text.
Consonants
| b, d, f, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, z | as in English | |
|---|---|---|
| y | as in English when consonantal | |
| g | always hard, as in English get | |
| x | x as in axe, except z at beginning of words | |
| q | Always part of a digraph "qu" for the cluster kw | |
| c | Always "k" before a, o, u; always "s" before i, e | |
| cz | č | ch as in church |
| sz | š | sh as in shoe |
| nz | ň | ny as in canyon |
| dz | ð | "dh", or th as in that |
| tz | þ | th as in think |
Vowels
| Original | Proposed | IPA | Sound | Variation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| a, e, i, o, u | as in romance languages | |||
| ã (tãng, hãbby) |
/ʌ/ | hut | English "short U", not really close to /a/ at all | |
| æ (ðæ, gæo) |
/aɪ̯/ | aye | Diphthong of /a/ + /i/ | |
| å (plåx, schåft) |
/æ/ | hat | /a/ fronted and raised | |
| ä (häm) |
/eɪ̯/ | hate (same as ê) | Diphthong of /e/ + /i/ | |
| ê (dêm) |
[eɪ̯] | hate (same as ä) | Diphthong of /e/ + /i/ | |
| î (wîn, trîmfer) |
/ɛ̃/ | nasal "i" | Between /e/ and /a/ and nasalized | |
| ö (cö [sic], miaö) |
/aʊ̯/ | out | Diphthong of /a/ + /u/ | |
| õ (jõnt, drõt) |
/ɔɪ̯/ | boy | Diphthong of /o/ + /i/ | |
| ø (kønig, før) |
/œ/ | German Göttin | Between /e/ and /a/, rounded | |
| ü (fü, küssen) |
/y/ | German müssen | Rounded /i/ | |
| û (ûnçivilan) |
/œ̃/ | nasal "u" | Between /e/ and /a/, rounded and nasalized | |
Diacritics used in vowels and their roles
| Diacritic | Uses |
|---|---|
| Tilde |
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| Ring |
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Shawn's thoughts on the vowel orthography
(To be discussed Sunday night 20 March or thereafter)
So the following sounds must be accounted for: AYE, bOY, hAtE, OUt, hAt, mÜssen, mÖgen, nasal I, nasal U.
Broken down phonetically we have:
- The three common i-final diphthongs (aye, hate, boy = ai, ei, oi)
- The most common of the u-final diphthongs (out = au)
- Rounded front vowels (ü = rounded i/fronted u, ö = rounded e/fronted o)
- Nasalized rounded and unrounded open-mid front vowels (nasal I, nasal U)
- The schwa as in "tãng"
- The odd man out is the ash vowel (hat, plåx), the near-open front unrounded vowel
Proposal 1
- Maybe ai ei oi for aye, hate, boy.
- au for au. So we are consistent that diphthongs are two-vowel clusters, different from pure-but-exotic vowels.
- Keep ü and ö for what they are in German. So here the umlaut means "fronting".
- Keep circumflex for these, î and û.
- Keep ã for the schwa.
- Use ä for the ash vowel. That's what it is in Finnish, and the umlaut could still mean "fronting". And if you front the sound "a", it moves up a bit and becomes the ash vowel.
Preserved: ü, î, û
Some classic words under this new orthography
| áileäd | green | ailieid |
| äpril | April | eipril |
| bröken | to need | brauken |
| cö [sic] | lunch | czau |
| tãng | language, tongue | (no change) |
| çivilàn | citizen | civilan (maybe with grave on final syllable) |
| mäjordôm | prime minister, vizier | meijordom |